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Mitochondrial tRNA import: are there distinct mechanisms?
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Mitochondrial tRNA import: are there distinct mechanisms?

  • Schneider A André Schneider is at the University of Fribourg, Institute of Zoology, Dept of Biology, Pérolles, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland. andre.schneider@unifr.ch
  • Maréchal-Drouard L
  • 2000-12-21
Published in:
  • Trends in cell biology. - 2000
Animals
Biological Transport
Cell Nucleus
Humans
Mitochondria
Models, Biological
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Phylogeny
RNA
RNA, Mitochondrial
RNA, Transfer
English Sequence information from an increasing number of complete mitochondrial genomes indicates that a large number of evolutionary distinct organisms import nucleus-encoded tRNAs. In the past five years, much research has been initiated on the features of imported tRNAs, the mechanism and the energetics of the process as well as on the components of the import machinery. In summary, these studies show that the import systems of different species exhibit some unique features, suggesting that more than one mechanism might exist to import tRNAs.
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  • English
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